W7W7L TIL Celine Dion’s Falling into You and Let’s Talk About You were released back to back in 1996 & 1997. Both albums would go on to sell over 30 million copies, cementing Céline Dion as the highest selling female artist of the 1990s.
9wewp TIL Oxford University is over 2 centuries older than the Aztec Empire, meaning its students could theoretically have studied about an emerging civilization.
nW1WW TIL that sharks existed before trees — sharks appeared around 400 million years ago, while trees appeared about 350 million years ago.
4kwkX TIL Bobby Brown blames his 1993-2007 period of drug abuse from childhood trauma that stemmed from being assault by a Catholic Priest while in temporary child protective custody.
x6x61 TIL that the symptoms of Pellagra (a formerly common vitamin deficiency disease) are the “four D’s”: Dermatitis, Diarrhea, Dementia and Death
5V6Yk TIL that banana ketchup was invented in the Philippines because of a tomato shortage and high production of bananas during WWII
M7veW TIL that the human brain processes sensory input over roughly a tenth of a second, which means the present moment we experience is actually a slightly delayed reconstruction created by the brain.
j6aNv TIL that Wi-Fi has actually been around since the 90s
0dnwj Today I learned about "Desert Fathers", or hermetic Christian monks of Roman Egypt that began ascetic desert living in the 3rd century.
grkM4 TIL about the four-dimensional coordinate system from Princeton University and how a professor at Kyoto University named Ernesto Lindgren the Modern Gaspard Monge days before he passed. The news is from the book "Encyclopedia of Four-Dimensional Graphics" by Koji Miyazaki of Kyoto University.
LQJkZ TIL that similar to the pope of the Roman Catholic Church being the successor to St. Peter, the pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church is the successor to St. Mark.
b6N9N TIL Peter Cushing, who played Grand Moff Tarkin was extremely pleased with how the film came out, got along well with the cast, and his only regret was that his character died and he couldn't appear in the sequels